Derek Robati

Priority Payment Systems

Alpharetta, Georgia

Feburary 2019 — Present

Senior Software Engineer

2 years

Developed a codemod replacing internal legacy routing with React Router. This improved the performance, reliability, and made it easier for developers to work with the new routing system.
Redux state was removed and React Query was implemented to improve performance and enhance the developer experience. This improved the overall performance and reliability of the company's software.
Redesigned merchant details to use new API endpoints, which improved the performance and reliability of the company's online services.
Developed KYC features and an auto underwriting feature for the underwriting team, integrating with third-party APIs to provide a seamless user experience. This sped up on boarding to less than a day from 3 weeks.
Redesigned and developed pricing to allow for complex effective start and end dates, which improved the customer experience and led to increased sales.
Using an Agile methodology developed many requirement-driven features and fixed various bugs on the UI and Node.js microservices.
Unit tests were written for all work to ensure that it was reliable and well-tested, achieving 100% coverage. This helped to improve the quality and reliability of the company's software.
Developed a CLI tool that improved the productivity and accuracy of developers, reducing the time and effort required for various tasks. This helped to improve the quality and reliability of the company's software.

Dispersive Networks, Inc.

Alpharetta, Georgia

July 2016 — January 2019

Director of Apps and Services

10 months

Introduced React and Go ecosystem that team developed and deployed.
Continued to develop features and fix bugs with team.
Developed a client-side React and Redux interface for health checking of network elements.
Maintained existing API and web interface.
Expanded knowledge base and onboarding material in wiki to share with team and other departments.
Taught others how and why to provision elements in system.
Supported a team of five responsible for four operating systems, web, and microservices.

Senior Software Engineer

1 year 11 months

Developed an engineering dashboard with as a prototype of desired stack.
Developed features and bug fixes for our web admin and REST interface.
Involved in UI/UX designs and architecture discussions.
Developed unit tests for the REST interface.
Improved API docs adding versioning, success examples, ect.
Proposed, developed, and deployed GitLabs CE, git workflow, and continuous delivery of builds.
Developed prototype Kafka infrastructure that was deployable in multiple docker containers along with microservices written in Go.
Maintained our Jenkins server and all build nodes for each OS.

ADVA Optical Networking North America, Inc.

Norcross, Georgia

May 2006 — July 2016

Software Production Engineer

1 year

Remote team-member with international team.
Implemented Pythonic abstractions of APIs for Collabnet, Artifactory, Jenkins, and Git Repositories.
Developed a change log generator linking commits to user stories.
Developed internal release notes system generating reports of build info and what changed.
Deployed simulation build infrastructure for testing builds on.
Developed artifactory cli tool for querying and fetching builds.

Systems Integration Testing Engineer

4 years

Used Vagrant for unix test environment.
Proposed and implemented continuous integration workflow.
Development of test automation suites.
Developed automation Python framework.
Developed Test Set libraries.
Constructed test coverage from requirements for many products.
Demonstrated product functionality to current and potential clients.

Operations & Production Test Engineer

4 years

Developed TestStand suites on test benches to examine limits of newly manufactured modules.
Developed internal website with Django to display Test Engineering projects to other departments.

Internship

1 year

Learned technologies used in the fiber optical telecommunications field.
Calibrated equipment.
Learned telecommunication standards and protocols.
Extended wxPython application to support more features.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Southern Polytechnic State University

Marietta, Georgia

August 2009 — December 2011

Courses explored outside core degree classes include Digital Image Processing, OpenGL, and Distributed Computing.

Experience

Priority Payment Systems

Senior Software Engineer

Dispersive Networks, Inc.

Director of Apps and Services

Senior Software Engineer

ADVA Optical Networking North America, Inc.

Software Production Engineer

Systems Integration Testing Engineer

Operations & Production Test Engineer

Internship

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science